Taxation, Economy, and Revolt in Ancient Rome, Galilee, and Egypt

Introduction, Thomas R. Blanton IV, Agnes Choi, and Jinyu Liu; Part I Taxation in Egypt and the Roman Empire; 1. Taxation and Tribute in Early State Thought and Practice, John T. Fitzgerald; 2. The Check is in the Mail: Assessing and Collecting Taxes in Ancient Egypt, Agnes Choi; 3. Opaque, Inconsistent, and Unfair: Some Remarks on the Burden of Roman Taxation during the Principate, David B. Hollander; 4. Roman Provincial Censuses as Sociopolitical Regulation: Implications for Interpreting the Synoptic Gospels and Acts, G. Anthony Keddie; Part II The Galilean Economy before and after the First Judean Revolt; 5. The Economic Impact of the First Jewish Revolt on the Galilee, Mordechai Aviam; 6 The Economic Transformation of an Early Roman Galilean Village: A Keynesian Approach, C. Thomas McCollough; 7. Bandits and the Galilean Economy: Was the Galilee Prosperous or Desperately Poor?, David A. Fiensy; 8. Refugees: The Missing Element in Discussions of the Galilean Economy in the Roman Period, James Riley Strange; Epilogue, Jürgen K. Zangenberg